dunno what i was thinking when i chose this as an angle to draw a panel from. i meant to scan this before i starting filling in the horse so you could get a sense of what my "roughs" look like when i just slap them on the page before they get refined and inked. at least the horse isn't smiling ~ ha! and look at how wongy my perspective is on the street (that'll get corrected!). i'd have finished another two pages already if i hadn't made this silly panel so complicated.

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in research news, i finally found an actual photograph of two horses in harness in which one of the horses has fallen. i had seen a drawing of such long time ago and it stuck in my head, so i wrote a story called "A Horse in the Road" (which some of you might remember). it was suggested to me that one of a team of horses might not be able to fall without bringing down the other. i don't know squat about horse rigging, i only knew i had once upon seen a picture and i couldn't really trust my memory on the matter.
so finally here's a picture for reference, totally not intended as an "i told you so" since, like i said, i know nothing about how these things work. i figured that falling horses (especially in the 19th century) would be common, so it would only make sense that the rigging be designed not to injure the rest of the team if one were to fall (sort of like break away pet collars). this picture might be educational (for anyone needing such obscure education?).

Amstel Beer horse carriage, 1959.
from this interesting site
(where you can also see the picture larger for more detail).

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in research news, i finally found an actual photograph of two horses in harness in which one of the horses has fallen. i had seen a drawing of such long time ago and it stuck in my head, so i wrote a story called "A Horse in the Road" (which some of you might remember). it was suggested to me that one of a team of horses might not be able to fall without bringing down the other. i don't know squat about horse rigging, i only knew i had once upon seen a picture and i couldn't really trust my memory on the matter.
so finally here's a picture for reference, totally not intended as an "i told you so" since, like i said, i know nothing about how these things work. i figured that falling horses (especially in the 19th century) would be common, so it would only make sense that the rigging be designed not to injure the rest of the team if one were to fall (sort of like break away pet collars). this picture might be educational (for anyone needing such obscure education?).

Amstel Beer horse carriage, 1959.
from this interesting site
(where you can also see the picture larger for more detail).
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i'm glad there are some people there at least. the horse isn't just lying there alone.
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i swear i get sick when i think of the million horses and mules that got offed during the war ~ and here's one nearly 100 years later suffering for people's stupid gluttony.
[tiptoes away to avoid going on a tear].
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i dunno ~ it's all very interesting. do you know of, by any chance, any newspaper reports of Seward's carriage accident? i've been meaning to look for some. it certainly seemed like a serious one.
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no I don't know, but she's been pretty into him lately so she might :).
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i'm bad, i know. it's not personal, i swear.
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i find him a spineless whiner, i confess. we don't get along much and always feel like throwing food at him when i see his picture. something messy, like spaghetti or jello ~ hahahahaha.
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It's actually pretty disconcerting how I used to absolutely loathe him, and then find him laughable, and now I cry sometimes when people (in his life) make fun of him. But I still laugh. So I still remember what it was like when he wasn't the center of my L.a. life. ^^
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i try to think of looie as a terminally unhip wanna-be who was never invited to play any reindeer games, but nothing ever really excuses him for me.
i like to hope one day when we're all dead we'll find the whole lot of them hanging out in café heaven, all slights forgiven and forgotten.
looie probably would order something sissy mocha-frappa-cappa-latte with chocolate and cinnamon and hazelnut flavoring or somesuch.
[i am so very clearly avoiding work right now]
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thank you for the particulars! i wasn't sure if he fell out of the carriage or was inside and the carriage fell.
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It was love at first sight.(Every account of their meeting has included a melodramatic description of Weed's good looks--I'm not quite sure why.) Weed later became Seward's close political ally and probably his dearest friend--he was a sketchy, sketchy man who was very good at buying votes (he certainly had a largeish hand in the re-election of Lincoln in '64).From:
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i think weed was kinda weedy personally. i guess they always say he was good looking to try to impress on us that he had charisma. no doubt he did. mebbe his pixtures just don't do him justice.
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I think your picture and the angle of it are quite good.
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